Originally Posted by davispm1

Because a friend of mine who is a FO for NetJets and was also a captain for ATA in the past applied to Colgan and they called him and said that he was "too heavy with experience"...he had 5000+ hours, now, if this doesn't keep you up at night I don't know what will, I will never let my wife and kids get on a colgan flight,,, I had a friend who I instructed with was hired by Colgan about 9 years ago was on a ferry flight to reposition to get the A/C fixed and sure enough the plane was not airworthy as the mechanics said and crashed in the water off of the Cape in the north east... just two pilots onboard...Colgan is trading expiereinced pilot for having unsafe people up there, I know that is bad to say but there are alot of highly tained guys out there...